Daily Outfit: The Neglected Wardrobe

Ladies and gentlemen, a confession. I, Grant Heino, am a recovering wardrobe neglector.

Now that I am getting back into the swing of Blogging, I'm finding that not only am I coming up with ideas for where I would like to take things, but I'm also thinking more and more about my daily outfits. But things haven't been Rosy for a while now.

Daily Outfit: Sunday style

Today I headed to Yum Cha with my mother in Canberra's answer to Chinatown. It was a beautiful sunny winter day, and true to my self, I spent it inside eating Chinese delicacies and then getting my sewing room in order.

Daily Outfit: Deadliest Catch

It was not intentional at all, but I sort of planned an ensemble for today that has left me looking like I should be hauling up crab-pots out of the freezing Atlantic Ocean while swearing at the camera on Deadliest Catch. I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing, and as a look I sort of dig the combination, sort of L.L. Bean meets Red Lobster meets Australian suburbanite homosexual...

Blogging: Four Years Ago Today

As of today, I have been Blogging as Ink & Leather/s for four whole years.

 

I find it hard not to think of my Blog as this static, adamant thing, like a sort of obelisk inscribed with the details of my life, dress sense and opinions. A monument to who I was that will be floating around the interwebs for years and years to come. I think this is largely because there are a few of my old diaries floating around in the cyber ether that are so appalling written and humiliatingly divulging of my neurosis. I have forgotten or lost the passwords to gain access to the Blogs to delete them - and so now they exist as ugly blotches on the cyber landscape, chilling reminders of who I was at 19.

Shopping: Sydney with the Pragettes

So, this weekend past I spent in Sydney, shopping until my bank account all but bled. I came away with the following loot and a greater sense of how my desired wardrobe aestetic might actually look and feel. I also returned home yesterday and positively GUTTED my wardrobe! I'm throwing out roughly half of what I own, in order to clear a path for the new direction I'm moving in. I probably should have purchased a few 'building block' pieces first, but oh well, what's done is done and all that.
Anyhow, here is what I bought...

Travel: Pragettes do Sydney

I spent this past weekend in Sydney with the Pragettes (Mags and Meags), shopping, eating, and generally making a nuisance of ourselves.

We sampled delights at the Chinatown night markets and at Adriano Zumbo's dessert train, discovered the delight of EasyWay's iced watermelon frappe, and had an exceptional dinner at Din Tai Fung.

We spent almost an entire 24-hour period shopping, resulting in 13 new additions to my wardrobe, which I will shortly be detailing here on the Blog.

After Mags was mauled by an enormous, blue, plush bear, we had hilarious photo booth stickers taken which now reside proudly in my agenda.

And, most importantly, we had the opportunity to just hang out and act like the socially awkward freaks that we are.

Xx

Daily Outfit: Mr. Winter undone

Winter has truly struck the Nation's Capital. Most mornings I am waking up to a car thoroughly covered in ice, fog, and the pitch black of the early morning void. I was in Jindabyne over the Queen's Birthday long weekend and it was warmer there than it has been here!

Ordinarily I am Mr. Winter. I am a Winter according to the wonderful 80's dressing-to-colours system,